Dr. Joanna Esquibel

Co-Owner, Æ Academic. Translator, theoretical and applied linguist, with focus on the history of language and the academia; in the past, an academic lecturer with 15 years of experience at the University of Warsaw (UW) and SWPS University, Poland. Her portfolio includes curriculum design and running Postgraduate Studies in LSP Translation and BA/ MA translation programs. At present, co-owner and editor-in-chief at Æ Academic Publishing in San Diego, CA. Her professional background outside the academia includes over two decades of hands-on experience as a translator and translators’ trainer for specialized areas of operation, academic content writer, editor and advisor. Fascinated with language intricacies of the past and present, she also researches culture-, social- and history-bound differences influencing the quality of intralingual and interlingual communication.

Dr. Marta Sylwanowicz

She studied at the University of Warsaw, Institute of English Studies, where she was awarded a doctoral degree in 2004. Marta specializes in English historical linguistics, her main publications are on the English medical terminology of the medieval and early modern period. In her recent studies, the author, together with Prof. Magdalena Bator (University of Social Sciences, Warsaw), concentrated on the evolution of English culinary and medical recipes in (…)

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Dr. Joanna Esquibel

Translator, theoretical and applied linguist, with focus on the history of language and the academia; in the past, an academic lecturer with 15 years of experience at the University of Warsaw (UW) and SWPS University, Poland. Her portfolio includes curriculum design and running Postgraduate Studies in LSP Translation and BA/ MA translation programs…

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Prof. Anna Wojtyś

Professor (Dr. Hab.) at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. Her research interests include historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and varieties of English. She has published mainly on the history of English with the focus on morphology and lexis. She is currently working on a monograph devoted to obsolete preterite-present verbs in English…

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Dr. Agnieszka Kocel

Assistant Professor at Humanitas University in Sosnowiec, linguist and sworn translator/interpreter, with specialization in legal translation and conference interpreting. Agnieszka graduated from the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw in Poland, where she obtained her Ph.D. in historical phonology and discovered her present path. She has since completed two years of post-graduate training in conference interpretation, complimented with a few years of teaching experience acquired in Poland and England – places which may now lay claim both as her home, and to her heart…

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Dr. Anna Budna

Dr Anna Budna graduated from the University of Warsaw, where she obtained her PhD in historical linguistics. Her research interests include morpho-syntactical riddles posed by intricacies of Old and Middle English, as well as modern and historical sociolinguistics in all its varieties. A certified English-language examiner, a.o. at the International American School in Warsaw, she has…

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Dr. inż. Hieronim Piotr Janecki

Chemist, graduate of one of the oldest faculties at Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Technology and Chemical Engineering (now Faculty of Chemistry); doctorate from the Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology in Warsaw; founder and head of the Computer-Assisted Chemistry Laboratory at the Faculty of Materials Science and Design, University of Technology and Humanities in Radom (formerly Technical University), waste minimization certified expert…

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Prof. Piotr Chruszczewski

Prof. Piotr P. Chruszczewski, a scholar of English and American studies, specializing in anthropological linguistics, to include studies of text, translation, writing and language.
Head of the College for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Wrocław; chairman of the Committee for Philology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław Branch; holder of grants from the Foundation for Polish Science, Fulbright Commission, and the Lanckoroński Foundation.

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Dr. Aleksandra R. Knapik

Dr. Aleksandra R. Knapik specializes in Contact Linguistics, Translation Studies, Rhetoric and Communication. Vice-Chair of the Committee for Philology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław Branch, she is also a founding member of the Polish Society for Human and Evolution Studies.

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Esquibel

Co-owner and editor at Æ Academic Publishing in San Diego, CA. Long-time quiet problem solver who finds a need and fills it; a mind and eye for precision.

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Dr. Joel Snyder

Dr. Joel Snyder is perhaps best known internationally as one of the first “audio describers.” He’s a member of the Actors’ Equity Association, the American Federation of TV and Radio Artists, the Screen Actors Guild, and is a 20-year veteran arts specialist for the National Endowment for the Arts. He’s recorded for the Library of Congress and read privately for individuals who are blind…

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Dr. Beata Jerzakowska

Received her PhD from the Polish and Classical Philology Department, Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM) in Poznań, Poland, for her dissertation devoted to audio description in genological perspective (within genre theory). Her research oscillates mainly around the audio description of fine arts, both in theory and practice. Beata is an editor of…

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Dr. Anna Drogosz

Dr. Anna Drogosz received her doctorate from the Department of English, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, and is currently employed at the University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland. Author of two monographs and thirty papers, she specializes in Cognitive Linguistics

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Bob Hamer, FBI Agent, ret.

He has written for the TV series “Sue Thomas: FBI and The Inside.” He worked as the technical adviser for “The Inside” and “Angela’s Eyes” and has consulted for “Law & Order: SVU” and “Sleeper Cell”. He also appeared as a guest on Oprah to discuss his role in the NAMBLA investigation. Now retired from the FBI, he spent 26 years as a “street agent.” He has worked organized crime, gangs, terrorism, and child exploitation…

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Tim Lee, Pastor

Tim Lee, the rebellious teenager from McLeansboro, Illinois and son of a Baptist minister, fought in violent protest against all ordained authority in both his home and community while repeatedly being spared from more unfortunate consequences by those same elders whom he grew to realize he had given little reason to grant grace. At nineteen, he joined the Marine Corps, was trained as an infantry engineer, received orders to Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, and sustained an epiphany after an explosion which took…

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Scott Flannigan, Lt. US Army, Ret.

Raised in Thornton, CO, Scott Flanigan considers himself blessed to be in the Flanigan family. Patriotism featured prominently in his upbringing, with numerous family members having served in the military, including a grandfather who answered his country’s call during World War II…